IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bernardston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980VT021007
  • User Pedon ID: 1980VT021007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0414
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48190
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 43.5530548
  • Std. Longitude: -73.1011124
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Senility Farms.
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT021—Rutland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Yost and J. Pratt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bernardston
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/16/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bernardstown
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: drumlin
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—20

    20—50

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    8

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, dry; silt loam; very friable; 5.5 roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02230. many roots
    Bw1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02231. many roots
    Bw2—33 to 50 centimeters (13.0 to 19.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior silt loam; weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02232. many roots
    BC—50 to 68 centimeters (19.7 to 26.8 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) interior silt loam; weak coarse platy, and weak medium angular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 roots; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02233. common roots
    Cg1—68 to 170 centimeters (26.8 to 66.9 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) interior silt loam; firm, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 15 percent , moist, clay films; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02234. 80P2235 117-170 cm.; few clay films surface features; few roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091718; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091718
    Cg2—170 to 230 centimeters (66.9 to 90.6 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior silt loam; firm, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent , moist, clay films; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 80P02236. few clay films surface features; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091719; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091719